Whitacre v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Kalady v. State (1984), Pearson v. State (1982)
54 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Rummel v. Estelle · Works v. State · Tewell v. State · Porter v. State · Johnson v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person who, with intent to defraud, makes or utters a written instrument in such a manner that it purports to have been made: (1) By another person; (2) at another time; (3) with different provisions; or (4) by authority of one who did not give authority; commits forgery.... ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.